Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Told you a rant was coming...

Here's something I don't understand; why a couple made up of two men or two women is always described as a "gay" couple or a "lesbian" couple, instead of just being called a fucking couple.I don't know if there's any reason for this or if it's one of those random fluctuations that sometimes just happen, but the last few days my Twitter feed seems to have been overrun with nasty comments about GLBT rights and marriage equality. I thought about screencapping, but decided on balance that was probably a bit of a bullying move; this is a direct quote from one that particularly annoyed me, though:"I just seen a Levi commercial that showed 2 gay guys getting married & kissing. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG W/ THIS WORLD?"Shit like this pisses me. The fuck. Off.You know what? Gay guys are just people. Gay gals are just people. Bisexual people are just people. Asexual people are just people. Transgender people are just people. Transsexual people are just people. Cisgender people are just people. Straight people are just people.So what did this complete bellend actually see? An advert showing two people kissing and getting married. Big fucking whoop. We are all. Just. Fucking. People.How the hell anyone can think they have some sort of right to get all righteously offended by the idea that someone else might enjoy sexual activities they personally don't enjoy, or with partners they personally might not choose, is quite literally beyond my powers of comprehension. Who the fuck do these people think they are?!And more than that, how the fuck're they deciding which aspects of everyone else's sex lives they're entitled to object to anyway?! Of all the criteria by which I choose my sexual partners, why is the type of genitalia they happen to possess the important one? What if the person I choose is the "correct" gender according to your random arbitrary opinion but you don't approve of our relationship for some other reason, am I allowed to ignore you then?Who told you your opinion on my sex life is worth a damn anyway?If you wouldn't consider it your place to legally prevent a person from marrying another person because they were of the "wrong" race, social class, nationality, religion, age, personality type, intelligence, educational level, sense of humour, political ideology, height, weight, size, shape or motherfucking shoe size... why the fuck do you think you get to tell them they can't get married on account of their chosen partner's gender or sex?!

Why the holy hell is THAT the point at which you step in and say "oh now, wait a minute here, I have some sort of trivial pissant half-baked and completely uninvited opinion on this particular aspect of a choice you're making that in no way affects my life, so you'd just better stop that"?! And why when you do that do you think we're magically obliged to care what you think?!If YOU are uncomfortable with the idea of people of the same sex fucking, or if YOU have a problem with transgender people or transsexual people, it is YOUR goddamn problem, not anybody else's. You don't want to marry someone of your own sex? Don't marry someone of your own sex. You don't want to fuck someone of your own sex? Don't do that either, it makes fuck all difference to any of the rest of us.And that's kind of the point, really, isn't it? As long as you're not harming anybody, your sex life and sexual preferences matter not two shits to any of us; why do other people's matter to you? And why do you think the fact that you have some arbitrary opinion obliges the rest of us to listen to it?Get back in your fucking box.

I remember Black Sabbath's lyrics (with a little mod): Get back to your tiny (mind) boxes. 157% of agreement. That's there... religion and misconceptions. Blame education, parents. People need to ask themselves the same questions and realize those tags must now go, forever.